Şebnem Korur Fincancı

After Şebnem Korur Fincancı was interviewed by Erkam Tufan Aytav on his YouTube channel in 15 March 2022, the Anti-Terrorism Department filed a criminal complaint arguing Aytav is a fugitive member of the Gülen Movement. The Gülen Movement is seen as terrorist in Turkey.

On 20 October 2022, Korur Fincancı spoke to Medya Haber TV, a channel with close ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an organisation designated as terrorist group by Turkey and allied countries. During this broadcast, Korur Fincancı claimed that the Turkish military had used "chemical gases" on the PKK and called an investigation into the event. After her interview, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation against Fincancı on charges of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization" and "insulting the state institutions and organs". President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described her statements as "speaking the language of the terrorist organization", she was insulting the Turkish armed forces and Turkey.

On 20 June 2016 she was detained for having been an editor-on-watch for one day for the newspaper Özgür Gündem. She was investigated for terror propaganda but released after ten days, pending trial. On 17 July 2019, she was acquitted but this time the prosecution appealed the verdict and on 3 November 2020 a court ruled a retrial was to take place. In April 2022, the dismissal of Murat Bircan, the presiding judge of the court was demanded as it was reported he was a candidate for the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Samsun and was also seen in a gathering with local AKP functionaries.

She was also investigated for having signed the petition We are not a party of this crime by the Academics for Peace in 2016. In trial, her observations during her visit of Cizre on 3 March 2016, an interview given to Evrensel in December 2015 and another interview given to Özgür Gündem in December 2018 were presented as evidence for her being involved in disseminating terrorist propaganda. In 2019 she was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months imprisonment but she appealed the verdict.

In 1996 Korur Fincancı was involved in the autopsy of several bodies unearthed from mass graves in the Kalesija region in Bosnia on behalf of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In 1999, she was a collaborator in the drafting of the Istanbul Protocol, which was to become guideline for the documentation of torture for the United Nations. In 2002, she contributed to a survey and handbook on sexual violence for the World Health Organization (WHO), After being convicted of terror related charges, she temporarily put her office at the university on hold. In 2007 In 2016, after human rights violations were documented during the curfews ordered by the Turkish authorities in Southeast Turkey in pursue of militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), she became a signatory of the petition We will not be a party of this crime from the Academics for Peace. Between 2018 and 2021, she was the president of the TIHV. In October 2020, Korur-Financi was elected the president of the Turkish Medical Association (TBB). Having assumed as the TBB president, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, referred to her as "someone from a terrorist organization".

She was a civil servant when she was the head of the board of experts at the Forensic Department from the Ministry of Justice between 1995 and 1996. She was the secretary general of the Istanbul Chamber of Medicine twice, between 1996 to 1998 and again between 2002 and 2006.

After having completed her high school at the Kadıköy College of Education, she graduated in medicine at the University of Istanbul she received further training in forensic medicine. Following she studied classical archaeology at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Istanbul from 1987 to 1990. She is a founding member of both the Turkish Penal Law Association and the Society of Forensic Medicine having presided the latter between 1993 and 1996. In 1997, she became the head of the forensic medical department of the University of Istanbul.

Şebnem Korur Fincancı (born 1959) is a Turkish medic, former professor, and current president of the Turkish Medical Association (TBB). She is an internationally renowned expert on human rights and a member of the Turkish Human Rights Association (TİHV).